The tiki taka is a play style that actually has its roots in Dutch football. Johan Cryuff, perhaps the best Dutch player of all time, helped incorporate the total football philosophy the Dutch created to his Barcelona teams as both a coach and a player at the club. It wasn’t until Pep Guardiola was brought […]
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One of the biggest surprises of the day at the World Cup was Cristiano Ronaldo’s absence from the starting 11 in Portugal’s game against Switzerland. Reportedly his absence was a disciplinary measure. Head coach Fernando Santos was not at all pleased by the way that Cristiano reacted after being taken off in the game against
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The USMNT was not able to advance beyond the round of 16 in spite of having perhaps a decent matchup in that round. Not to take anything away from the Netherlands, but at least on paper they weren’t as scary a matchup as Brazil, Portugal, France or even Argentina could’ve been. Still, the USMNT didn’t
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The group stage allowed us to see plenty of surprises. The Saudi Arabia win against Argentina was certainly one of the biggest one game wonders of the tournament. We could point to the Germany debacle as a surprise as well. However, this is a recurring issue at this point. We’ve talked about this at length
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Argentina and the Netherlands are both coming into this game without necessarily providing too much certainty with regard to their level of play so far in the World Cup. The Netherlands is arguably a surprise so far in this tournament. The team hasn’t looked dominant, but that wasn’t something that we were necessarily expecting from
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The England versus France matchup in the Quarter finals of this World Cup is perhaps the most anticipated match of the tournament so far. Only one team will be able to move on to the semifinals, and the pressure is clearly on England going into the game. The French are coming off a World Cup
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After the 2022 World Cup was announced to take place in Qatar, it was unclear as how this could work, but after our journey to Doha, we can say that is has been a great experience so far, and the organization has been spot on. We’ve already visited 4 out of 8 venues of the
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We can’t believe the group stages are coming to an end this week! We’ve been enjoying every moment of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, and after spending last week on fabulous Doha, we wanted to give a better insight regarding our experience and thoughts (non-football related) on our trip to Qatar, but most importantly the
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Without a doubt the final matchday of the group stage has come with plenty of drama. There’s an argument to be made that this was something that was missing from this World Cup so far. What happened today in the final games of Group E was “sketchy” at best. It could’ve gotten real wild if
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The last time that the German national team won a tournament was in 2017 when still under Joachim Löw the team would pick up the final edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup. This was a tournament that took place one year before the World Cup with all of the champions from the different FIFA confederations.
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